After Nike shoes, it’s Van Goghs
From “artists” who can make 30 paintings a day to those who can transform a masterpiece to a likeness of your loved one, China is fast claiming to be “The McDonalds of the Art World”:
Some five million oil paintings are produced in Dafen every year. Between 8,000 and 10,000 painters toil in the workshops. The numbers are estimates: No one knows the exact figure, which increases by about 100 new painters every year. But it’s not just professional copy painters who are drawn to Dafen — graduates of China’s most renowned art academy also come here. They complete only a small number of paintings a month and earn as much as €1,000
More at Der Spiegel
One of our friends ordered Vermeer’s “Girl with Pearl Earring” from China. The final copy is quite good, though she had to send back quite a few of the original (no pun intended) versions.
I read somewhere that the assembly line is so organised that there are people whose jobs are just to paint flowers, and then they pass it on to the next person who paints fields and so on.
Comment by Anjali — August 24, 2006 @ 11:35 am
Trust the Chinese factories to come up with assembly lines even for masterpieces. Wonder what will be next?
Comment by Sue — August 24, 2006 @ 2:23 pm
Art and therapy
Dutch art weblog Suds and Soda tells us about an interview the Dutch publication Vrij Nederland recently conducted with British artist Tracey Emin. The interview is not available online, but the author of Suds and Soda gives us one quote:Last…
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